Jacob Hallén
Chairman Of The Board at Excellent Wines
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJacob Hallén is a pragmatic technology leader and board chair with 23 years of experience designing software that intentionally shapes organizational behavior. He specializes in connecting technical solutions with social structures to create lasting, positive change across NGOs, startups and retail deployments. As founder/partner of multiple ventures (Open End, Eutaxia, Sekans) and a former senior developer at Fujitsu, he blends hands-on engineering—Linux/DevOps and ERP delivery—with strategic governance. His background ranges from national library systems and EU research projects to payment infrastructures and POS rollouts, reflecting deep domain breadth. A long-time advocate of free software since the GNU Manifesto, he brings an uncommon focus on how tools affect people’s work and lives. Based in Gothenburg, he also applies his leadership to hospitality and specialty wine ventures, showing a practical streak for turning expertise into community-focused businesses.
23 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskap, Naturvetenskap at KattegattskolanChalmers Startup CampInternational School of LusakaOfficer in the Reserve, Logistics, Officer in the Reserve, Logistics at TrängKAS AspS1Sommelier, Vin och andra drycker, kommunikation & sälj, ekonomi, ledarskap, Sommelier, Vin och andra drycker, kommunikation & sälj, ekonomi, ledarskap at YrgoChalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, French
Github Skills (33)
python10
readonly10
pypy10
pypi10
apache9
data-science9
monitor9
scheduler9
machine-learning9
automation9
orchestration9
data-integration8
data-pipelines8
mlops8
etl8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jacob22/accounting-client
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jacob22/pytransact
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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